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The War in Ukraine Has Now Gone On Longer Than World War 1

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Parallels between the two wars abound, from the grinding nature of the fighting to the way new technologies reshaped warfare.   A Ukrainian soldier in Kostiantynivka, a city ravaged by drone warfare, in January. Credit... image by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Article by Constant Méheut Constant Méheut, who has covered the war in Ukraine since 2023, previously reported for The Times from France The New York Times , June 11, 2026 Updated 9:46 a.m. ET The war in Ukraine has often been compared to World War I for its brutal infantry assaults and heavy casualties. Yet the idea that it could, by any measure, surpass a conflict so long and bloody that French soldiers hoped it would be “the last of the last” once seemed unthinkable. That is just what happened on Thursday. The war in Ukraine — which reached 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months — has now outlasted World War I. When President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sent his troops into Ukraine in February 2022, he beli...
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Why did Putin think he could win in Ukraine in just 3 days?

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   from Quora Trevor Bacquet  ·  Follow History/geopolitics enthusiast  Apr 10 Why did Putin think he could win in Ukraine in just 3 days? Why wouldn’t he think this? Putin had a track record of getting what he wanted. When he went into Crimea in 2014, Europe condemned it, inflicted some symbolic sanctions, and called it a day. Crimea fell almost without a fight. No one did anything other than utter empty words when he instigated a war in Eastern Ukraine. Indeed, Germany increased its dependency on Russian oil and gas between 2014 and 2022. Prior to his full-scale invasion, EU leaders gave speeches about the “right side of history” and walked back even some of those condemnations when Putin used the threat of cutting off oil and gas to certain nations. At least on paper, Ukraine’s military should have been crushed. We’d assumed Russia’s military was as powerful as it appeared on paper. At the time, I listened to numerous fanboys claiming that Russia’s ground for...
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Senior Russian Military Official Is Killed in Car Explosion Near Moscow

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The death of the officer appeared to add to a string of targeted assassinations of high-profile opponents of Ukraine inside Russia. Wreckage after an explosion in the city of Balashikha, east of Moscow, on Tuesday. Credit... Yulia Morozova/Reuters Reuters By Ivan Nechepurenko Reporting from St. Petersburg, Russia The New York Times June 10, 2026  Updated 1:31 p.m. ET  A senior Russian military officer died on Tuesday after a car he was driving exploded near a residential building outside Moscow, a senior Ukrainian official and Russian media outlets said. The episode appeared to be the latest targeted assassination of high-profile opponents of Ukraine in Russia’s heartland. It came as Kyiv has successfully thwarted Moscow’s attempt to launch a summer offensive and as the Ukrainian military has been bringing the war home to Russia, including through long-range strikes on Moscow and on oil assets across the country. Russian investigators said that they had opened a criminal case...
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